Brad Penny will get his shoulder checked out by Dr. Tom Gill, who just arrived in Florida. Manager Terry Francona seemed to indicate that it was more precautionary than anything, and that he is not overly worried about Penny.

The Marlins' radio guys said that Joe Castiglione was interviewing Joe Castiglione in the booth at one point during the Red Sox broadcast. The latter is the athletic director at Oklahoma (or Oklahoma State), I think.

I saw that lugo and lowrie both had 2 hits. I was gonna say something about lugo not giving up and doing good. Then I saw the RBI's and remembered that lugo gets hits, sometimes, but they are never for RBI's. Even when he bats 9th.